Archive for April 15, 2024
Several injured in Sydney in the second stabbing incident in three days
SYDNEY, April 15 (Reuters) – At least four people including a bishop were wounded in a knife attack during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney on Monday, police and witnesses said, triggering clashes between angry residents and police. It was the second reported mass stabbing in just three days in Sydney…
Read MoreAustralian Police Probe Why Man Who Stabbed 6 People To Death In A Sydney Mall Targeted Women
Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men, a police commissioner said on Monday. The killer’s father blamed his son’s frustration at not having a girlfriend. Police shot and killed the…
Read MoreIsrael Is Quiet On Next Steps Against Iran — And On Which Partners Helped Shoot Down Missiles
Israeli leaders on Sunday credited an international military coalition with helping thwart a direct Iranian attack involving hundreds of drones and missiles, calling the coordinated response a starting point for a “strategic alliance” of regional opposition to Tehran. But Israel’s War Cabinet met without making a decision on next steps, an official said, as a…
Read MoreGermany arrests three teenagers on suspicion of attack plot
Police in Germany have arrested three teenagers on suspicion of planning an attack, according to prosecutors. Two girls aged 15 and 16 and a 15-year-old boy were arrested as they were “strongly suspected of planning an Islamist-motivated terror attack and of having committed to carrying it out”, prosecutors said in a statement on Friday. The…
Read MoreSurvivors of 2017 Ariana Grande concert bombing take legal action against UK intelligence agency
More than 250 survivors of the bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England, are taking legal action against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, lawyers said. Lawyers from three law firms said Sunday they have submitted a group claim on behalf of more than 250 clients to the U.K.’s investigatory…
Read MoreArgentine court blames Iran and Hezbollah for deadly 1994 Jewish center bombing
Argentina’s highest criminal court reported a new development Thursday in the elusive quest for justice in the deadliest attack in the country’s history — the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters — concluding Iran had planned the attack and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group had executed the plans. In a ruling obtained by The…
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